Sulphur on 3/12/2009 at 20:51
Catcher in the Rye, apart from being an accurate depiction of adolescent confusion, did nothing whatsoever for me.
I suspect that was the point, but ever since I came to TTLG, I've felt like I'd relate more to surprise buttsex comics featuring gay unicorns, six-limbed cats, and the unhealthy tendency to shove pictures of questionable-looking dildos in unlikely places, so my opinion might be slightly coloured.
metal dawn on 17/12/2009 at 05:50
Celestine Prophecy.
Painful shit to wade through, that.
Summary: I...uh...fuck it, I don't remember really. The characters mentioned ENERGY a lot. And coincidences. Or something along the lines of "dude are you digging this energy?!"
I'd probably have liked it better if I was high or something.
Volitions Advocate on 17/12/2009 at 06:37
Just starting Sandman, my room mate has all the volumes and I've never read any Neil Gaiman.
Thirith on 17/12/2009 at 08:48
Enjoy Sandman - I recently reread it (mainly because I got the four volumes of Absolute Sandman) and think it's by far the best thing Gaiman's done. It's got its ups and downs, and it only really takes off at the end of volume 1, but it's well worth it.
Just finished China Miéville's The Scar, which I enjoyed a lot, although I prefer his more politically minded novels (this one was more of an escapist romp). I've now started on historian Niall Ferguson's The Ascent of Money, which I'm hoping will be an interesting way of becoming less ignorant about economic issues. Ferguson's pretty good at writing readable books.
N'Al on 17/12/2009 at 11:42
Quote Posted by Thirith
Niall Ferguson's
The Ascent of MoneyI saw his
Ascent of Money documentaries when they were broadcast here in the UK; if the book is anything like those, it should be pretty interesting.
Kolya on 17/12/2009 at 14:34
An ex-girlfriend lately gave me "Juliette, or Vice Amply Rewarded" by Marquis de Sade as a present... Sort of late hint I guess. Anyway, it's an entertaining mix of explicit sex and philosophical musings. The latter aren't much of a revelation for a modern enlightened atheist, but then they're delivered by nuns in-between fucking the hell out of each other. Good read for a train ride.
SubJeff on 17/12/2009 at 14:43
Justine is better.
Thirith on 17/12/2009 at 14:48
My impression, based primarily on second-hand information and bad films, was always that de Sade's writings were of the kind that shocks the easily shocked but is pretty boring to everyone else exactly because it's obvious he's trying to be shocking, and relatively facile philosophically. From what you're saying it sounds like I might want to reconsider.
(By the way, Kolya, is your name based on the film of that title? I only saw it recently, which is why I'm probably a decade late with the question.)
Kolya on 17/12/2009 at 14:56
I'll see about Justine once I'm through with Juliette. Even if it's the wrong way around, it's just that I have Juliette now.
(My name is the regular shortform of my real (Russian) forename. I'm not Russian myself but was named after one of Dostoevsky's Karamasow Brothers. I heard good things about that movie 'Kolya' but haven't seen it myself yet.)
Keeper_Miguel on 17/12/2009 at 14:57
Books don't catch me easy, I'm reading a book called piraatit (Pirates), wrote by Ilkka Remes. I'm not really fast about it since I've read just about 80 pages within 2 months, and propobly will take me another lightyear to read it. :erm:
If there would be a book based on Thief series, you bet I'd read it in a day max.
